Re: [PATCH] common: log mkfs output in _test_streams

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:50:46 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 12:13:03PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 08:20:47AM -0600, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Log the mkfs output to allow debugging the mkfs paramters,
> > especially when mkfs and thus the test fails.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  common/filestreams | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/common/filestreams b/common/filestreams
> > index 459de8c6b6a6..0b11b6644977 100644
> > --- a/common/filestreams
> > +++ b/common/filestreams
> > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ _test_streams() {
> >  	# Skip these tests on zoned file systems as filestreams don't work
> >  	# with the zoned allocator, and the operation below would force it into
> >  	# the tiny data section only used for metadata anyway.
> > -	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"
> > +	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs >$seqres.full 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"
> 
> This should >>$seqres.full so that you don't obliterate whatever might
> already be in that file.  Otherwise this sounds like a good idea to me.

Oh, right..